Louis Benech is the landscape genius behind the Tuileries gardens, high place of both culture and cruising.

Benech now takes on Versailles, bringing contemporary art to the sun-king’s domain with his new design for the Bosquet du Théâtre d’Eau [Water Theater grove], featuring an installation by artist Jean-Michel Othoniel.

Museums, monuments, shopping… scratch that. Once upon a time, Paris’ number one attraction used to be its bordellos.
Enter Thierry Schaffauser, sex worker, thinker, activist and author of “Les luttes des Putes”, ‘The struggles of whores.’

Interviewed & edited by Ed Siddons.

Photography by René Habermacher.

Styling by Suzanne von Aichinger, assisted by Chafik Chariet and Lahcen Fatah.
All looks by AMI.

Starting at the end of a dirt road in Carolina, passing through a windowless room in San Francisco… Skateboarder-turned-model-turned-writer Scott Bourne was pretty much in the dark about the city of lights.

Now in Paris, he walks among the dead, or with them, as he likes to say.

Photography & interview by René Habermacher.

Styling by Suzanne von Aichinger, assisted by Chafik Chariet and Lahcen Fatah.
All looks by Berluti.